Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not left us on a mic drop of a finale. While it seemed there was little else to say about Samara Weaving’s Grace, it did leave a few balls in the air. When we last saw Grace, she…
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An Imbalanced Yet Effective Follow-Up to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
When “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, first premiered in 2017, it felt like a bleak calling card of our time. Now, nearly ten years later, “The Testaments,” also based on Atwood’s…
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A Masterful Biopic That Lives Up To The King Of Pop’s Legendary Status
Neither adaptations of Michael Jackson's life nor biopics of famous singers are anything new. Elvis and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody both hit the big screen in 2022 alone, and Bob Marley: One Love wasn't far behind in…
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Netflix’s Sports Comedy ‘Running Point’ Is Still Hilarious but Starting to Get Repetitive in Season 2
Running Point had no right to be as excellent as it was when it released in 2025. Then again, it had the creative backing of the likes of Mindy Kaling, David Stassen, and Sal Saperstein himself, Ike Barinholtz. Plus, it…
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‘The Boys’ Borrows a Surprising Twist From ‘The Last of Us’ in an Eerily Timely Episode
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Boys Season 5 Episode 4. Last week's episode of The Boys was a heavy one. Things come full circle for Hughie (Jack Quaid) when he meets Translucent's (Alex Hassell) son, Maverick…
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A Twisted Love Triangle Told in Fragments
HBO’s DTF St. Louis, created by Steven Conrad, is the kind of series that feels deliberately engineered to provoke discomfort. It’s a dark comedy wrapped in a murder mystery, structured like a puzzle box, and fueled by a trio…
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I Swear | Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! Writer/director Kirk Jones’s I Swear tracks John Davidson’s life as his undiagnosed Tourette’s turns everyday moments — family, friendship, even basic public interactions — into high-stakes landmines. This is a real-life story of bravery about a guy…
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All Power-Ups, No Progression In Nintendo’s Empty Franchise Machine
If you needed another bleak reminder that we’re living in a dystopian post-story, social-media-clip-driven, instant-cut, TikTok-pilled era of filmmaking, where IP is mined and exploited at all costs, look no further than “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.” After the success…
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Reminders of Him Review | Flickreel
Reminders of Him is the latest adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel. In Regretting You, the previous film based on one of Hoover’s books, two people suddenly die in a freak car accident. This leads to an unlikely romance between…
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Richard Gadd’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ Follow-Up ‘Half Man’ Is Raw, Brutal, and Absolutely Devastating
Baby Reindeer undoubtedly took the world by storm when it first premiered on Netflix in 2024. Darkly funny, stressful, and addictive to watch, viewers experienced creator Richard Gadd's lived experience of being stalked. Now, with HBO's Half Man, Gadd's sophomore…
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Defanged Creature Feature Offers Very Little Tension Or Fun
When it comes to creature features, there are a variety of ways a filmmaker could go about unleashing a deadly monster upon their victims. Some choose to lean into a bit of tongue-in-cheek camp and let audiences laugh with their…
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A Storm of Noise, Fury, and Missed Opportunities
There’s a pulpy, irresistible premise at the heart of Thrash: a Category 5 hurricane slams into a coastal town, only to unleash a feeding frenzy of sharks drawn inland by blood-soaked floodwaters. It’s the kind of high-concept setup that practically…
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